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UNITED STATEs PATENT OEEICE.

WILLIAM E. HILL, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YoEK, ASSIGNOR or oNE nALE TO WILLIAM s. FARRINGTON, 0E SAME PLACE.

EGG .CUP AND COOKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,426, dated June 13, 1893.

Applicationfiled March 13,1893. SerialNo. 465,702. (Nomodeh) the bottom of the kettle and thus cook the egg uniformly and without disturbing the relative positions of the yelk and white of being deprived of its shell To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. HILL, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have inventednew and the egg, the egg V Cups and Cookwhen introduced into the cup, and the latter useful Improvements in Egg ers, of which the following, taken in connecserving the purpose of the shell during the tion with the accompanying drawings, is a process of cooking the egg.

For suspending the cup in the kettle I prefer to employ the spider -dshown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, said spider being provided with legs by which it rests upon the bottom of the kettle, and from the radial arms of the spider depend hooks hh--honto which to hang the cup as shown.

To allow the cup to be used without the desired or necessaryl provide a suitable base 1) by which bottom of the keteither intethe cup full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of eggcups which; are egg-shaped and is designed for cooking therein the eggs shells, and maintained approximately in their original shape during the process of cocking; and the invention consists in an imroved construction of the cover of the cup and means cess of cooking the egg and for serving the cooked egg in said cup on the table, as hereinafter fully described and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings Figure 1 is a side View of an egg-cup embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same, and Fig. 3 is an isometric perspective view of the spider by which to susend the cups in the vessel in which the egg is to be cooked.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

(1-- represents the egg-receptacle or cup roper which may be of any suitable material and is formed egg-shaped internally so as to maintain the egg approximately in its original shape while being cooked.

0-- denotes the cover which is detachably secured to the annular rim -a'- on the top of the receptacle either by being screwed onto said rim,

as represented in Fig. 2 the drawings, or by a bayonet joint -ias shown in Fig.1 of the drawings, or by any suitable interlocking coupling to allow the receptacle -a to be lifted by its cover, for which purpose I provide the top of said cover with an eye e adapted to receive a hook -hby which to either lift the cup tle. gral with the cup or separate from as indicated by drawings. In either case said base adapts the cup to serve the cooked egg contained therein on the table.

The great advantage of my invention consists in its permitting the egg to be served in the cup in which it was cooked removed from its natural shell, thereby avoiding the custom of breaking the shell at the table and the liability of mixing pieces of the shell with the eatable portions of the egg when soft boiled, and also obviatesthe necessity of putting the cooked egg in a cold cup or other cold dish on the table.

Having described my invention, what- I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The improved egg-cup consisting of the receptacle a formed egg-shape internally, the removable cover -c connected to said receptacle by interlocking couplings and provided with the eye -e for the reception of a hook by which to suspend or lift the cup asset forth.

2. The combination with the egg-shaped receptacle -a-- of the base b and the cover c-- connected to said receptacle by interlocking couplings and provided with the out of the kettle or suspend it therein so as to maintain the cup with its longer axis in avertical position and out of contact with eye -e-, substantially as described and In testimony whereof I have hereunto shown. signed my name this 4th d 3. The egg-shaped receptacle the cover -cay 0f Mareh,1893. [0

WILLIAM R. HILL. [L. 3.] the eye -e- -dpro- Witnesses: -Z- and hooks -h-h, substantially as (16801 ibed and shown.

MARK W. DEWEY, O. L. BENDIXON. 

